Mariano Rajoy

News about Mariano Rajoy, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Jan. 24, 2015

Luis Barcenas, former treasurer of Spain's Popular Party indicted in slush-fund scandal, accuses Prime Min Mariano Rajoy of being fully aware of party's illegal payments. MORE

Nov. 5, 2014

Regional government of Catalonia will go ahead with straw poll on independence, in seeming defiance of an order from Spain's Constitutional Court to suspend the ballot; episode is latest in two-year standoff between Prim Min Mariano Rajoy and Catlan leader Artur Mas over region's status. MORE

Sep. 30, 2014

Spain's Constitutional Court agrees to hear central government's challenge to planned independence referendum in Catalonia; Prime Min Mariano Rajoy says no part of Spain can break away without the agreement of the whole country. MORE

Jul. 31, 2014

Arthur Mas, head of Catalonia's regional government, meets with Spain's Prime Min Mariano Rajoy, telling Spanish premier that plans for November vote on secession remain on track; Rajoy reiterates his opposition to any Catalan vote that violates Spain's Constitution. MORE

Feb. 6, 2014

Op-Ed article by journalist Pedro J Ramirez decries his firing as editor of Spanish newspaper El Mundo following paper's expose of government corruption; holds while press and government are often at odds, latest attacks on journalism mark low point in Spain's democracy; vows to keep writing about both state of country and government. MORE

Jan. 20, 2014

Spanish Prime Min Mariano Rajoy's plan to enact some of Europe's toughest abortion restrictions, which would allow termination of pregnancy only if it was result of rape or would endanger mother's health, triggers backlash and protests; proposal exposes Rajoy's already unpopular government to building criticism from European Parliament, while also reinvigorating his Socialist opponents and opening divisions in his own conservative Popular Party. MORE

Sep. 15, 2013

Spanish Prime Min Mariano Rajoy rejects request by Artur Mas, leader of economically powerful region of Catalonia, to approve referendum that would allow his region to decide whether to secede from rest of country. MORE

Aug. 2, 2013

Spain’s embattled prime minister Mariano Rajoy, during rare appearance before lawmakers, admits he erred by trusting accountant now jailed for hiding millions of euros in Swiss bank account; denies widespread corruption in his governing Popular Party and rejects calls to resign. MORE

Jul. 31, 2013

Pablo Ruiz, Spanish judge who has made name for himself by investigating governmental corruption, is set to hear testimony of Prime Min Mariano Rajoy, whose Popular Party has been accused of questionable financial dealings; high profile case has highlighted public distrust of Spain's judicial system. MORE

Jul. 16, 2013

Spain's Prime Min Mariano Rajoy insists he will not yield to blackmail and resign, even as he is confronted by intensifying corruption scandal; former party treasurer Luis Barcenas has reportedly acknowledged before a judge that he had made payments for years to Rajoy and other center-right politicians from secret party slush fund. MORE

Jul. 15, 2013

Memo from Spain; sense of scandal surrounding Spanish Prime Min Mariano Rajoy has crested yet again, after another week of allegations against Luis Barcenas, former treasurer or Rajoy's Popular Party; political observers say allegations against Barcenas are hurting national morale and credibility of institutions, distracting government from economic concerns. MORE

Jul. 10, 2013

Spanish newspaper El Mundo publishes report accusing Prime Min Mariano Rajoy and other party leaders of having received payments from party slush fund; governing Popular Party denies accusations. MORE

Jun. 7, 2013

Economic Memo; after nearly six years of economic crisis in Europe, standard for good news has sunk so low that even modest signs of upturn have become cause for celebration; Spanish Prime Min Mariano Rajoy draws public attention to gain of only 265 jobs in most recent economic report, citing it as evidence that economy may be improving. MORE

Apr. 27, 2013

European officials who favored austerity have adopted a softer tone, backing away from a strategy that is widely unpopular with the public; Prime Min Mariano Rajoy of Spain, who once promoted aggressive budget cuts, becomes the latest leader to reject European Union targets for reducing deficits; such changes have forced senior officials in Brussels to acknowledge that a move away from fixation on debt and deficits toward more growth-friendly policies is necessary. MORE

Feb. 3, 2013

Spanish Prime Min Mariano Rajoy pledges to provide complete transparency about his own financial assets and those of other politicians in his party, in effort to refute documents showing that he and others had received payouts from secret parallel account maintained by party. MORE

Feb. 1, 2013

Prime Min Mariano Rajoy of Spain has become engulfed in widening corruption scandal involving payments from companies to leaders of his Popular Party after newspaper El Pais publishes excerpts from ledgers showing that Rajoy received payments beginning in 1997. MORE

Dec. 20, 2012

Two main separatist parties in Catalonia sign agreement to allow citizens of what is Spain’s most powerful economic region to vote in 2014 on whether to secede; that puts Catalan President Artur Mas on collision course with Spanish Prime Min Mariano Rajoy, who sees any independence referendum as violation of country’s Constitution. MORE

Oct. 22, 2012

Spain’s governing Popular Party retains control of Galicia, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s home region, in election that is seen as significant bellwether for Rajoy’s program of tax increases and other austerity measures. MORE

Oct. 21, 2012

Spain's Prime Min Mariano Rajoy and his Popular Party are fighting to avoid potential setback in regional elections that are considered critical bellwethers of both his austerity plans and growing push toward separatism in parts of Spain. MORE

Sep. 21, 2012

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy fails to reach an agreement about taxation with Artur Mas, leader of Catalonia, the country's most economically powerful but also most indebted region, where a separatist movement is gaining traction. MORE

Sep. 11, 2012

News analysis; Spanish Prime Min Mariano Rajoy, in navigating his country's debt crisis, must contend with angry voters, rancorous regional leaders and scrutiny from European leaders; Spanish voters, with the unemployment rate at almost 25 percent, are in no mood for further economic discipline being imposed from outside the country, and believe European Central Bank aid should be their reward for pain already endured. MORE

Aug. 31, 2012

Spanish Prime Min Mariano Rajoy says Spain can meet the financial obligations of its troubled regions, despite word from Valencia that it will require 1 billion more euros in rescue money than it requested in July. MORE

Jul. 12, 2012

Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain unveils another package of unpopular austerity measures as the country’s miners stage a raucous and occasionally violent protest; Spain is facing interest rates for its bonds that are unsustainable in the long run, which has forced Rajoy to take many of the measures pressed on Europe’s insolvent countries by international lenders. MORE

Jun. 11, 2012

Central to any solution to the European debt crisis will be the role of Spain’s Prime Min Mariano Rajoy, although he is known for playing both sides of an issue. MORE

Mar. 24, 2012

Spain's governing Popular Party of Prime Min Mariano Rajoy is poised to extend its reach, as voters in Andalusia, nation's most populous region, are expected to end the Socialist Party's long dominance there. MORE

Dec. 21, 2011

Spanish Parliament elects Mariano Rajoy as the country's new prime minister, and the country's borrowing costs plummet in a debt auction, indicating renewed market confidence in its ability to handle its debt. MORE

Dec. 20, 2011

Mariano Rajoy, Spain's new conservative prime minister, pledges to reduce the size of the country’s public sector, clean up its troubled banks and introduce corporate tax breaks to reduce Spain’s budget deficit and revive investment; acknowledges fears of recession's return and offers few specifics on austerity. MORE

Nov. 21, 2011

Spain's conservative Popular Party wins governing majority in Parliament, defeating the Socialist government after its near eight-year rule; is third country to see its government felled by the debt crisis in the euro zone, along with Italy and Greece; Mariano Rajoy, Spain's new prime minister, will take the reins in country struggling with growing economic stagnation, gaping budget deficits and crushing debts. MORE

Nov. 5, 2011

Op-Ed article by journalist Jonathan Blitzer holds that members of political class in Spain's 34-year-old democracy have not aged well, noting a marked absence of youthful energy and renewal as country moves toward national elections; holds that neither Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba nor Mariano Rajoy, major party candidates for prime minister, have made connection with country's youth or addressed public ire about government corruption. MORE

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